Hook and eye.



S. H. GLIDDEN.

HOOK AND EYE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1912. RENEWED SEPT. 17. 1913.

1,093,260. Patented Apr. 14, 1914,

SAMUEL H. GLIDDEN, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO M. H. INGERSOLL, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. re, 1914.

Application filed September 5, 1912, Serial No. 718,701. Renewed September 17, 1913. Serial No. 790,352.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. GLIDDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in a hook and eye and the primary object of the same is to provide a simple and easily constructed device of such a nature that the parts can be easily and readily connected or disconnected and when the same are connected they will be prevented from becoming accidentally disconnected.

'With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists of the novel details of construction, combination, formation and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and particularly pointed out in the appended drawings.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that the right is reserved to any changes, alterations, and modifications to which recourse may be had within the scope of the claims and without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the efiiciency of the invent-ion.

In said drawings, Figureil is a plan view embodying my invent-ion. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the members detached from one another. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the operation in which the hook may be inserted into the eye or removed therefrom. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section taken on the line t-t of Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 55 in the direction of the arrows as shown. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1 looking in a direction opposite from the direction of the arrows as shown.

Reference now being had to the accompanying drawings wherein corresponding and like parts are designated by like character throughout the several views, the numeral 1 indicates the eye and 2 the hook, each being made preferably of one continuous piece of wire.

The eye 1 is provided at one end thereof with a transverse elongated portion 3 having formed therein a slot 4 for the reception of the transverse elongated portion 5 0f the hook. The opposite end of the eye 1 is provided with an angular portion 6 which is connected to the elongated portion thereof by means of the parallel extending arms 7 thereby forming the longitudinally extending slot 8 which is in communica tion with the slot 4 formed within the elongated portion thereof. The outer arm 9 of the transverse elongated portion 3 is curved inwardly toward its medial portion and the opposite arms 10 are curved to conform to the same configuration as the outer arm but are spaced therefrom.

The hook member 2 which also comprises one continuous piece of wire is bent at its intermediate portion to form a transversely ext-ending loop or head 5 having the outer arm 11 thereof curved inwardly toward its medial portion and the outer ends thereof being curved upwardly as will be shown for a purpose which will be hereinafter more fully described. The outer ends of the hook member terminate in a contracted shank port-ion 12 which terminate in loops 13 whereby the hook member may be stitched or otherwise secured to the garment.

It is obvious from the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings that the head 5 of the hook member may be inserted within the slot 4: of the eye member thereby the contracted shank of the hook will rest within the slot portion 8 of the eye and the members will be fastened together, but to prevent the accidental removal of the hook from the eye, the curve in arms 9 and 11 will prevent the head of the hook from being removed from the eye without first bending the same at substantially right angles thereto. It will be particularly noted from having refer ence to Fig. 3 that when the head 5 of the hook is bent at substantially right angles to the eye, the head will have the same configuration as that of the slot l formed within the eye thereby permitting the ready removal of the hook. It will be further noted that when the members are hooked together they will lie flat upon the garment and also are not liable to tear the same.

lVhat I claim is 1. The combination with an eye having a transverse elongated portion, a longitudinally extending portion formed therewith comprising arms terminating in an abutment, of a hook adapted to be inserted in said eye and having a transversely extending head which is adapted to extend beneath said arms, the outer extremity of said head being curved upwardly, a contracted shank extending from said head and adapted to overlie said abutment, the curved outer extremities of said head being adapted to engage the transverse elongated portion of the eye when said hook and eye are connected, substantially as described.

2. The combination with an eye having a transverse elongated loop, a longitudinally extending portion formed therewith comprising arms terminating in an abutment, of a hook comprising an elongated loop being curved upwardly in a transverse plane, a contracted portion extending from the medial portion of said loop and adapted to overlie said abutment, the ends of the loop of the hook being adapted to engage the loop of the eye when the hook and eye are l, connected, substantially as described.

3. The combination with an eye formed of one piece of material bent to form a transversely extending loop, a longitudinally extending portion formed therewith comprising arms terminating in an abutment, the outer arm of the transversely extending loop being curved inwardly, of a hook comprising an elongated head which is adapted to extend beneath said arms, a contracted shank portion extending therefrom and adapted to overlie said abutment, and the outer extremities of the head portion being curved upwardly to engage the loop of the eye when the hook and eye are connected, substantially as and for the purpose described.

l. The combination of an eye formed of one piece of material bent to form a transversely extending loop, arms extending from said loop and in the same plane therewith, an angular down-turned portion formed at the extremities of said arms, of a hook comprising an elongated head adapted to extend transversely across said arms, a contracted shank portion extending therefrom and adapted to overlie said angular down-turned portion, and the outer extremi' ties of said head portion being curved upwardly to engage the transverse extending loop when the hook and eye are connected,

substantially as and for the purpose described.

The eombinatio-n of an eye formed of one piece of material bent to form a transversely extending loop, arms extending from said loops in the same plane therewith, an angular down-turned portion formed at the extremities of said arms, the outer arms of the transversely extending loop being curved inwardly, of a hook comprising a transverse elongated head, a contracted shank portion extending therefrom, the outer extremities of said head portion being curved upwardly'to engage the transversely extending loop of the eye when said hook and eye are connected, said arms being adapted to overlie said head of the hook and the angular portions formed at the extremities of the arms of the eye being adapted to engage underneath the contracted shank portion of the hook when said hook and eye are connected, substantially as and for the purpose described. V

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL H. GLIDDEN.

Witnesses H. B. BUTLER, S. H. STULL.

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